Gavril Derzhavin

V. DERJAVIN: "When Your Bright Spirit..."

"When Your Bright Spirit..."

(From Omar Khayyam)

When your bright spirit leaves your body earthy,
Another master enters home-desert;
But he won’t know what became of that
That was with life, thought and great passions blazing.
Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, February, 2003

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